Roscas

It's getting crazy around here with lots of celebrating of various holy days and getting ready for the fair. Kemmel's favorite thing to watch is the stands of roscas (kind of a dry mildly sweet pretzel, eaten with coffee). What cracks him up the most is that the vendors are here for almost 2 weeks and get here with all of the roscas they plan to sell during the fair--they don't make fresh ones as the days go on. But the sales seem to escalate as we get closer to the 21st (the actual day of Sto. Tomas). We find it hard to believe that they are any good after sitting in a basket for 2 weeks, but hey you never know. One family had more than 20 baskets of 100 lbs each of roscas in their booth. And there were at least 6-7 booths--That's a minimum of 5000 lbs of bad bread out there! We need to introduce them to a good coffee cake!